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A special place in hell goes to

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Aspecialplaceinhell · 13/09/2024 10:30

Whose clever idea was it to put stickers on greetings cards?! Not the easy pull off ones but the ones that leave some of the sticker behind. I know very first world problems.

Anybody want to put anything into the black hole of hell?

OP posts:
Iamnotalemming · 13/09/2024 14:04

Removal companies who put stickers ON YOUR FURNITURE that you then cannot easily get off

DappledThings · 13/09/2024 14:04

People who reverse into car parking spaces, I've been known to shout oh you're so going to hell mate
What's your beef with reverse parking?

AdviceNeeded2024 · 13/09/2024 14:05

People who drive up to a roundabout and come to a full stop before looking to see if it’s clear to
go, meaning I nearly drive into the back of them.

See also people who have to come to a pretty much full stop to turn into a junction meaning people nearly drive into the back of them.

Muckingpuddle · 13/09/2024 14:08

People that voted Labour into power.

suburburban · 13/09/2024 14:08

@HeySummerWhereAreYou

I remember being really told off by teacher for not saying thank you in this situation - "where are your manners"

Does go a long way

MrsTulip · 13/09/2024 14:12

Scout shirts, spent three hours last week sewing on one badge they are awful especially compared to cubs/beavers/ girlguiding tops.
Whilst we are on Girlguiding the material they now use for leaders polo shirts (that isn't polo shirt material) definitely needs to go. Bring back the proper polo shirt!

JudgeJ · 13/09/2024 14:13

People with their heads in their phones and bang into me.

And then it's your fault, not their idiotic behaviour that caused them to 'be injured' by the bump!

HumerousHumous · 13/09/2024 14:15

Cling film!!!

It never rips off cleanly as the serrated edge is crap.

The serrated edge nearly always comes off the box eventually.

The actual film doesn't cling to anything anymore. The manufacturers have clearly done something to it last few years.

JudgeJ · 13/09/2024 14:15

MrsTulip · 13/09/2024 14:12

Scout shirts, spent three hours last week sewing on one badge they are awful especially compared to cubs/beavers/ girlguiding tops.
Whilst we are on Girlguiding the material they now use for leaders polo shirts (that isn't polo shirt material) definitely needs to go. Bring back the proper polo shirt!

I always think that the first badge they all get should be the 'sewing on badges' badge!

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 14:15

suburburban · 13/09/2024 14:08

@HeySummerWhereAreYou

I remember being really told off by teacher for not saying thank you in this situation - "where are your manners"

Does go a long way

It's very entitled and controlling to do something for someone that they didn't asked you to do, and then get salty and sniffy because they didn't go down on their knees with gratitude for you.

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ClaudiaWankleman · 13/09/2024 14:15

People who don't understand that they live in urban/ suburban areas, where it's normal and expected to hear/ see/ come into contact with their neighbours' noise/ children/ hobbies/ general daily life.

Move to the middle of nowhere or put up.

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 14:16

DappledThings · 13/09/2024 14:04

People who reverse into car parking spaces, I've been known to shout oh you're so going to hell mate
What's your beef with reverse parking?

Yeah that has baffled me too. Confused

MrsTulip · 13/09/2024 14:17

JudgeJ · 13/09/2024 14:15

I always think that the first badge they all get should be the 'sewing on badges' badge!

I do my sons because he has suspected dyspraxia so can't do it, he has tried but just gets stressed and upset.

Retape · 13/09/2024 14:17

Expensive can openers that don't open cans. Having to use ancient cheap ones to finish the job instead.

liverpoolgal82 · 13/09/2024 14:18

Elderflower14 · 13/09/2024 11:29

Yes the bottles where the lid won't come all the way off and just hang there and then get in the way when you tip the bottle up.

When you open it you are meant to loop it over to the other side with one of the thread bits. ( It has two thread bits) don’t know the name of what I mean but when looped over it won’t get in the way of you drinking. Search tik tok - that’ll explain better 😁

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 14:18

Also a special place in hell goes to MEN who try to engage in conversation with a woman, and then call her a miserable cow, or a grumpy bitch, or a snob, (or something even worse,) if she has the temerity to not acknowledge said man, and completely ignores him.

tobee · 13/09/2024 14:19

SantasRubiksCube · 13/09/2024 13:58

Can I add 'non-stick' oven trays that no matter what you do with them, how you clean them, how delicately you treat them, only stay 'non-stick' for about 5-6 uses then end up looking like they've been tossed in an incinerator and burn any food you try to cook on them, setting off the bloody smoke alarm 😬

Yes!!

Driving one: driving down a road with cars parked on either side and you meet oncoming cars and do a polite little slow down so nobody needs to stop. Then the one driver who just barges along at top speed so you have to stop and move into a space for them. Nearly always a bloke in a Mercedes or BMW.

ClaudiaWankleman · 13/09/2024 14:19

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 14:15

It's very entitled and controlling to do something for someone that they didn't asked you to do, and then get salty and sniffy because they didn't go down on their knees with gratitude for you.

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Edited

But saying 'Thanks' takes nothing and has a positive effect on almost everyone. If we all just 'expected' things and were decidedly ungrateful to other people for rubbing along pleasantly with us, our shared quality of life would quickly deteriorate.

It isn't the equivalent of 'falling on knees' and the fact you've had to hyperbolise suggests you realise you need to justify your rudeness.

ttcat37 · 13/09/2024 14:20

People who don’t put their trolley back at the supermarket. In one action, or lack of, they expose themselves as lazy, entitled and selfish. Get in the bin.

Weddyweddy · 13/09/2024 14:20

Hellmans squeezy mayo bottles where you can’t get the last of it out and the bottles are almost impossible to cut open to get the last fair bit out and hurt my hand.

I did for a while swop back to jars as more easy to recycle and I use them a bit at home too for putting cream in as that doesn’t come with a lid now, but the price is a fair bit more.

Threewheeler1 · 13/09/2024 14:20

Lovemycat2023 · 13/09/2024 13:33

I might be the only one here, but trainers that don’t leave any room for toes. I don’t want to buy a bigger size, I don’t want barefoot shoes, just make the toe bit bigger!

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I know! What's going on with trainers?
Was time to retire my old ones (Mizuno Wave) so bought the updated model and they're like frigging winklepickers.
I do have cube feet though and absolutely hate my toes being squashed together. And I hate that the alternative for proper toe room is barefoot shoes - I want some support under my foot! 😫

harriethoyle · 13/09/2024 14:21

Flossflower · 13/09/2024 13:07

Does it work on onion/garlic as well? I always use disposable gloves.

I haven’t tried but I will next time I chop onions or garlic!

ItsVeryHyacinthBucket · 13/09/2024 14:22

HumerousHumous · 13/09/2024 14:15

Cling film!!!

It never rips off cleanly as the serrated edge is crap.

The serrated edge nearly always comes off the box eventually.

The actual film doesn't cling to anything anymore. The manufacturers have clearly done something to it last few years.

Get a Lakeland Wrapmaster. Never look back.

Mine are:

  • Men who breathe loudly in yoga classes (I've given up on the gym entirely for all the oof grunting eeeeessssh that goes on)
  • Middle lane drivers
  • Drivers who swing out wide to make a turn
  • People who take their entire family supermarket shopping and then clutter up the aisles
  • People who don't have basic manners like saying thank you when someone stands by to let you past, or holds a door for you
  • People who pee in the sink
  • Nimbys
  • People who suggest a meal/drink/night out in the group chat and then wait til 2 hours before the allotted meet up time to back out
Retape · 13/09/2024 14:22

@Weddyweddy Even when it's stored upside down gravity doesn't appear to work. It's infuriating.

PfishFood · 13/09/2024 14:23

Flossflower · 13/09/2024 13:07

Does it work on onion/garlic as well? I always use disposable gloves.

Metal works on garlic. You can buy a bar of metal "soap", but my Dad pointed out to me that most people's kitchen taps are metal, so, as I wash my hands I rub them on the spout of the tap and it takes the smell away!